Saimaa Canal
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Key facts
- Length
- 42.9 km (27 mi)
- Maximum boat length
- 82.5 m (271 ft)
- Maximum boat beam
- 12.6 m (41 ft)
- Maximum boat draft
- 4.35 m (14.3 ft)
- Maximum boat air draft
- 24.5 m (80 ft)
- Start point
- lake Saimaa , Finland
- End point
- Gulf of Finland near Vyborg , Russia
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- canal
- Country
- Finland
- Located in
- Vyborg
- Image
- Saimaa canal at Lappeenranta Finland.jpg
- Length
- 57.3
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- Saimaa Canal
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
Course of the canal
The Saimaa Canal (Finnish: Saimaan kanava; Swedish: Saima kanal; Russian: Сайменский канал) is a transportation canal that connects lake Saimaa with the Gulf of Finland near Vyborg, Russia. The canal was built from 1845 to 1856 and opened on 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1856. It was overhauled and widened in 1963–1968.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saimaa Canal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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